By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Apr. 9--Republic Services Inc. and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency have been embroiled in a simmering war of words. Letters between the heads of Republic and the Ohio EPA recently were posted on the state agency's Web site. On Feb.

By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Mar.

By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Nov. 15--Ohio's top pollution cop came to Toledo yesterday with a simple message for 300 students from nine area schools: They know more about the environment than he did at their age. Plain-spoken Chris Korleski, nine months into the job as Gov.

By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Nov. 8--Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility in southern Stark County is under new Ohio Environmental Protection Agency orders to pump off excess liquids and to investigate whether the synthetic liner under the landfill has been breached.

By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Nov. 3--BOLIVAR -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is being asked to look into continuing problems with underground fires and odors at a landfill in southern Stark County and into the Ohio EPA's management of the problem.